It has been claimed that Holistic Planned Grazing™ (HPG), a type of rotational grazing, can increase productivity in rangelands and reverse climate change while doubling the stocking rate, mainly through the impact of densely bunched animals on primary production. Previous...

Recent evidence from research in Europe has indicated that individual trees can be sampled for their pulping properties by the removal of small quantities (5–50 g) of wood at about breast height (1,3 m above ground). Work began at Sappi's...

The principals of biogeoclimatic ecosystem classification were used to stratify sites supporting immature stands of coastal Douglas-fir. The resulting strata were shown to represent unique segments of regional gradients of available soil moisture and nutrients. Regression models indicated strong relationships...

The Putu 11 simulation model was used to simulate veld production for each of 47 years, using weather input data and soil properties of a site at Glen. Grassland drought was defined as that condition encountered when 100 kg/ha or...

Site rankings obtained from five methods of scoring veld condition in the highland sourveld and the moist tall grassveld of the Natal Midlands were correlated with rankings from methods of multivariate analysis. With few exceptions, all methods gave rankings which...

Grazing‐induced gradients in pasture species composition were characterized for the red turfveld of the Northern Transvaal savanna. A proposed classification of pasture species response to grazing was developed and the influence of state variables and driving forces other than grazing...

Grazing trials were established at three sites in the Tall Grassveld of Natal. The objectives were to determine (a) patterns in herbage mass in relation to veld condition, stocking rate and commencement of spring grazing, and (b) animal performance in...